"Religous scholarship isn't, it's an exercise in fantasy and psy-ops. It plays on peoples inborn fear of the unknown."
I'd say I agree, but in Western religious scholarship circles there are a decent-sized batch of nominally atheist scholars who seem to have no particular (religious!) axe to grind. (Though their problems are sometimes almost as bad--check out that whole debacle surrounding the Dead Sea Scrolls...religion seems to be in the back seat in terms of politics there.)
-TD
From: Jim Choate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: CyberShamans who claim to be only mildly interested in Wicca Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 08:39:57 -0600 (CST)
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Tim May wrote:
> I said many texts.
Which isn't the point, the point was 'bible'. You executed a strawman and nobody seems to have noticed. Typical CACL.
Of course any word that exists is going to show up in 'many texts' if you look hard enough. Your 'point' is specious.
> Religious scholarship is a hell of a lot more than > just the several texts you cite which choose not to use this name.
Religous scholarship isn't, it's an exercise in fantasy and psy-ops. It plays on peoples inborn fear of the unknown.
[Rest of Tim's self-agrandizing bullshit deleted]
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